WD Blue hard drives deliver solid performance and reliability while providing you with all the space you need to hold an enormous amount of photos, videos and files. These drives are designed for use as primary drives in desktops PCs, notebooks and external enclosures, and for certain industrial applications.

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Highlights

The original.

WD Blue drives are designed and manufactured with the proven technology found in WD’s original award-winning desktop and mobile hard drives.

WD quality.

Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, these drives offer the features and capacity ideal for your everyday computing needs.

More options.

These drives are available in a broad range of capacities, cache sizes, form factors and interfaces so you can be sure there’s a drive that’s the perfect fit for your system, in more ways than one.

Overview

Trusted engineering

Built to WD's highest standards of quality and reliability, WD Blue offers the features and entry-level capacities that are ideal for your computing needs. WD Blue is designed by the brand that you trust with the quality you would expect for a tested, proven, everyday storage solution.

A modern classic

WD Blue storage is designed and manufactured with technology found in WD's original award-winning desktop and mobile hard drives. WD Blue sets the baseline for everyday storage by consistently delivering improved performance over previous generations while successfully maintaining WD's quality and reliability for over six generations. The difference is that our colors never fade, generation after generation.

Your power of choice

WD Blue is available in a broad range of entry-level capacities, cache sizes, form factors and interfaces so you can be sure there's a drive that's the perfect fit for your system. However, not all hard drives are created equally and for your applications that demand more, WD gives you the power of choice.

Drive with confidence

We perform tests on hundreds of systems, configurations, and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab™ to give our customers the confidence that our drives will work in their systems for the ultimate compatibility. WD Blue allows you to use our drive with confidence, knowing that our storage advancements such as NoTouch™ Ramp Load technology are proven and reliable everyday solutions.

The WD advantage

WD puts our products through extensive Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) prior to any product launch. This testing ensures our products consistently meet the highest quality and reliability standards of the WD brand. WD also has a detailed Knowledge Base with more than 1,000 helpful articles as well as helpful software and utilities. Our customer support lines have longer operational hours to ensure you get the help you need when you need it. Our toll-free customer support lines are here to help or you can access our WD Support site for additional details.

Easy upgrade

Acronis True Image, available as a download on the WD Support website, enables you to copy all your data to a new drive so you don't have to reinstall your operating system to get all the benefits of a new drive.

Recommended use

WD Blue storage is tested and recommended for use in desktop and All-in-One PCs, industrial applications, notebooks, and external enclosures where capacity is not needed. For additional capacity, look at WD Green capacity storage drives.

SATA or PATA, the choice is yours

While SATA has become the industry standard interface, WD continues to manufacture desktop drives with a PATA interface for unique or legacy systems.

Desktop drives are not recommended for use in RAID environments, please consider using WD Red hard drives for desktop RAID environments or WD datacenter hard drives for rackmount or large RAID configurations.

Specifications

Product Specifications

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Performance Specifications

Transfer Rates

Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)

150 MB/s (Sustained)

Physical Specifications

Formatted Capacity

1,000,204 MB

Capacity

1 TB

User Sectors Per Drive

1,953,525,169

Physical Dimensions

English

Height

1.028 Inches

Depth

5.787 Inches

Width

4.00 Inches

Weight

0.97 Pounds

Metric

Height

26.1 mm

Depth

147 mm

Width

101.6 mm

Weight

0.44 kg

Environmental Specifications

Shock

Operating Shock (Read)

30G, 2 ms

Non-operating Shock

350G, 2 ms

Acoustics

Idle Mode

29 dBA (average)

Seek Mode 0

30 dBA (average)

Temperature (English)

Operating

32° F to 140° F

Non-operating

-40° F to 158° F

Temperature (Metric)

Operating

-0° C to 60° C

Non-operating

-40° C to 70° C

Electrical Specifications

Current Requirements

Power Dissipation

Read/Write

6.80 Watts

Idle

6.10 Watts

Standby

1.20 Watts

Sleep

1.20 Watts

Compatibility

Operating System

Compatibility

Windows/Mac

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